Routledge, 2022. — 440 р. This companion is the first study of caste and its representation in Indian cinema. It unravels the multiple layers of caste that feature directly and indirectly in Indian movies, to examine not only the many ways caste pervades Indian society and culture but also how the struggle against it adopts multiple strategies. The companion: critiques Indian...
Wiley, 2021. — 339 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN 978-1119780670. Take the trip of a lifetime into the past and present of Bollywood Fascinated by the high energy, high emotion, high color, endless dance routines, and sheer scale of Bollywood—but afraid you'll never really know your Ghazals from your Qawwalis, or your Khans from your Kapoors? Well, in the immortal line from the...
Wiley, 2021. — 339 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN 978-1119780670. Take the trip of a lifetime into the past and present of Bollywood Fascinated by the high energy, high emotion, high color, endless dance routines, and sheer scale of Bollywood—but afraid you'll never really know your Ghazals from your Qawwalis, or your Khans from your Kapoors? Well, in the immortal line from the...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — XIX, 208 p. — ISBN 978-0-230-00172-5. This book explores representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, in the socio-political context and in terms of how young audiences in India and the UK construct them. In-depth interviews, observations and photographs provide insights into spectatorship and comparison with theories...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 268 p. How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in the cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? If cinema has a power to persuade people to believe in the image, to mesmerize or even possess them, how do we understand that compelling power? Through engaging with these questions, this book presents a...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 200 p. — ISBN: 9789351181743. Reprint of a very good book first published in 2000. Sholay screened in 1975 is a landmark in the Hindi cinema. Inspired by westerns, it had all the elements of a commercial Hindo film, cheap titllating dance, melodrama and low comedy. It succeeded on account of ensemble acting by Amitabh, Jaya, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar,...
Routledge, 2018. — 305 p. This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the world. This edited collection features analyses of cutting-edge new...
Routledge, 2022. — 152 p. This book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films, which have orchestrated a recent renaissance in the Bollywood-dominated Indian cinema sphere. Spotlighting a specific timeline, from the Indies' consolidated emergence in 2010 across a decade of their development, the book takes note of...
Reaktion Books, 2014. — 272 p. Bollywood movies have long been known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But these exciting and often amusing films rarely reflect the reality of life on the Indian subcontinent. Exploring the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, the strikingly illustrated Bollywood's India...
Routledge, London & New York, 2006. — 208 pages. — Language: English.
Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India’s other...
NY: Routledge, 2004. — X, 254 p.: ill. — (Routledge Film Guidebooks). — ISBN: 978-0415583886. 'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office...
Calcutta: Ritwik Memorial Trust, 1987. — 149 p. — ISBN: 9789383200917. Ritwik Ghatak (1925-76) is the most uncompromising Bengali movie maestro from 20th century India. Cinema & I is the collection of his writings and interviews. In this collection of 20 essays and 17 interviews, dazzling brilliance of a true artist's mind, illuminates the cultural layers of human civilization...
Routledge, 2013. — 488 p. India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. — 293 p. — (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series). — ISBN: 978-0292717862. Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons. In this book,...
SAGE Publications, 1999. — 250 p. This book challenges the widely held belief that India′s mainstream cinema is pure entertainment and entirely fantasy-oriented. Instead, the author shows how conventional cinema voices the concerns of the people and is essentially political, in that it is a major cultural and ideological force that not only reflects reality, but constructs it.
New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India, 1996. — 120 [5] p.: ill. — ISBN 978-8172232108. The present study is an attempt to capture the glory of popular Hindi cinema; to look behind the phantasmagoria and find out why the magic works. Why does Tom like to go to the movies again and again? For adventure alone? The discussion is centred around contemporary mainstream cinema and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 208 p. Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where ‘independent’ operates as an industry genre or critical category, how do we understand the significance of this mode of cultural production? Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 614 p. A new collection in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series, featuring the cinemas of India. In A Companion to Indian Cinema, film scholars Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar along with 25 established and emerging scholars, deliver new research on contemporary and historical questions on Indian cinema. The collection considers...
University of Minnesota Press, 2007. — 259 p. — ISBN: 9780816649419. Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 195 p. This book invites readers to immerse themselves in the fantastic journey of written text to the screen. It is divided into two parts, the first of which broadly focuses on cinematic adaptations based on Indian literary texts. The second section explores the adaptations of literary works from other countries. In the world of Indian...
Routledge, 2013. — 228 p. This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ‘Mythological’ and ‘Historical’, Stadtler examines how...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 240 p. Throughout this book, the author has aimed to demonstrate some of the fundamental and peculiar ways in which Bollywood cinema has formally changed after its economic liberalisation at the turn of the twenty-first century. All the film texts the author has analysed, which spring from this millennium period, incorporate some form of...
М.: Искусство, 1988. — 317 с.
В очерках по киноискусству Индии рассматриваются актуальные проблемы современного индийского кинематографа, его национальное своеобразие, условия кинопроизводства, различные направления и тенденции развития экранного искусства в стране. Завершают книгу творческие портреты ведущих режиссеров Индии. Книга предназначена широкому кругу читателей,...
Пер. с англ. О. Грузиновой. — М. : Искусство, 1956. — 76 с. — (Киноискусство зарубежных стран. Популярные очерки). Популярные очерки по истории индийского кино (с иллюстрациями и фотографиями).
М.: Радуга, 1987. — 384 с., 44 л. ил. Сборник посвящен крупнейшему по количеству выпускаемых фильмов кинематографу мира — кино Индии. В книге анализируется почти вековая история развития этого вида искусства, приводятся интервью с выдающимися деятелями индийского кино, материалы о современном его состоянии. Книга содержит обширнейший фактический материал и рассчитана на всех,...
Пер. с англ.: Цыркун Н.А., Третьяков В.А. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. — 376 с. — (Кинотексты). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1209-9. Невероятные сюжеты, зрелищные драки, скрытая эротика, музыка и танцы… Индийское кино очень узнаваемо, и его характерным признакам посвящена эта книга. В нее вошли две книги известного индийского киноведа М.К. Рагхавендры: «Болливуд» и «52...
Пер. с англ.: Цыркун Н.А., Третьяков В.А. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. — 362 с. — (Кинотексты). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1209-9. Невероятные сюжеты, зрелищные драки, скрытая эротика, музыка и танцы… Индийское кино очень узнаваемо, и его характерным признакам посвящена эта книга. В нее вошли две книги известного индийского киноведа М.К. Рагхавендры: «Болливуд» и «52...
М.: РИФ «РОЙ», 1999. — 240 с. — ISBN: 5-89956-120-3. Сатьяджит Рей написал в 1948 году: «Материал для кино - сама жизнь. Невероятно, чтобы в стране, которая вдохновила столько художников, музыкантов и поэтов, не появилось кинорежиссера. Он должен только открыть глаза и прочистить уши. Так пусть от так и сделает!» Через семь лет он сам осуществил эту идею, создав «Песню дороги»,...
Бюро пропаганды советского киноискусства, 1977. — 85 с.
Индию издавна называют «страной чудес». Ее мифы и легенды, ее древние, ни с чем не сравнимые памятники, ее йоги, заклинатели змей, дрессировщики слонов, таинственные секты, вроде секты страшных «душителей», и т. п. — все это не могло не волновать воображение и не порождать соответствующие по содержанию книги и фильмы....
Бюро пропаганды советского киноискусства, 1977. — 85 с.
Индию издавна называют «страной чудес». Ее мифы и легенды, ее древние, ни с чем не сравнимые памятники, ее йоги, заклинатели змей, дрессировщики слонов, таинственные секты, вроде секты страшных «душителей», и т. п. — все это не могло не волновать воображение и не порождать соответствующие по содержанию книги и фильмы....
М.: Союз кинематографистов СССР, 1989. — 59 с. Авторы данной обзорной брошюры рассказывают об актёрских судьбах таких известных современных индийских актёров, как Радж Капур, Шаши Капур, Наргис, Шабана Азми, Насируддин Шах, Хема Малини, Рохини Хаттангади, Ом Пури, Смита Патиль.
М.: Искусство, 1956. — 220 с. Панна Шах в своей книге руководствуется благородной целью - оказать посильное содействие повышению художественного уровня киноискусства и отстоять интересы национальной кинопромышленности, ведущей острую конкурентную борьбу с иностранными монополиями. В конце книги она предлагает вниманию читателя перечень задач, осуществление которых, по ее мнению,...
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